List of United States political families (G)


The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with G.

The Gadsdens

NOTE: Joseph Hopper Nicholson was also brother-in-law of U.S. Attorney Francis Scott Key. Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie was also a descendant by marriage of North Carolina Governor William Richardson Davie and granddaughter-in-law of U.S. Representative William Preston.

The Gallegos

John Phillip Garfield, Oakland County Commissioner 1993–2002. Michigan State Representative Michigan State Senate candidate 4th great cousin to President James A. Garfield. Born: Detroit, Michigan

The Garlands

NOTE: Edward H. Gillette was also a distant relative of U.S. President William Howard Taft.

The Gilligans and the Sebeliuses

The Goffs

NOTE: William Henry Laird was also son of U.S. Representative Daniel Maynadier Henry.

The Goldthwaites, Pettits, and Siebels

Note: Writer Gore Vidal asserted that his grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, who served as U.S. senator from Oklahoma, was related to the Gores of Tennessee, but no such relationship has been proven.

The Gormans and Johnsons

NOTE: Ulysses S. Grant was also seventh cousin of U.S. President Millard Fillmore and sixth cousin once removed of U.S. President Grover Cleveland.

The Grants and Murphys

NOTE: Horace Gray was also son-in-law of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Matthews.

The Greeleys

NOTE: Marshall Green was also son-in-law of U.S. Ambassador Edward S. Crocker II.

The Greens of Missouri

NOTE: Jay Pierrepont Moffat was also great-grandnephew of New York City Mayor Seth Low, nephew of Connecticut State Representative Seth Low Pierrepont, brother of New York Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, and brother-in-law of U.S. Ambassador John Campbell White.

The Griffins

The Groesbecks

NOTE: Harry Frank Guggenheim was also grandson-in-law of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton, son-in-law of U.S. Secretary of the Navy Paul Morton, and brother-in-law of Republican National Committeewoman Pauline Sabin and U.S. Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis.

The Gulottas